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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 24, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page six. Winnipeg free press saturday september 24, 1938. Paddle Paradise Canoe country. By Florence Page Jaques. Illustrated by Francis Lee Jaques. 78 up. Minneapolis University of Minnesota press. Now that the summer is Over and there is the inevitable attempt to recapture the Joys of holidaying it is meet to Call this remarkable Book to the attention of those who vacationed by Lakeside or in the wilderness. For mrs. Jaques in magic words and or. Jaques in distinctive pictures have related their unique experiences in such a fashion that All outdoor fans Wili irresistibly attracted the Jaques spent three weeks in Canoe and under along the old fur Trade route into the Canadian Waterways Between. Grande Portage on Lake Superior and fort Francis on Rainy Lake Canoe country just As seen by the first White Man where Foo years a Day and where there is a special Quality of wild innocence that touches deeply. Mrs. Jaques diary of those three weeks is an impressive combination of piquancy and vitality. It is full of almost indefinable graphic sentences. And it captures the imagination with its charming freshness. Perhaps nowhere in Canadian literature is there so acceptable a description of Canada s Laurentian shield canoeing possibilities not even in Lampman As in these pages. And the result is two fold the Narra Tive and splendid drawings make an alluring reminder of one s own Canoe trips in similar country and mrs. Jaques approach to the Avail Able material forms a guide Book for others who wish to chronicle similar compelling novel is also Fine social document Bidden to the feast. By Jack Jones. 446 up. Toronto mus son Book co. This powerful novel of South Wales is More than Folk history it is a record of working class struggles and achievements from 1865 to the enc of the Century reporting the Start of the unions and the lessening of child labor the betterment of Liv ing conditions and the first labor representation in parliament. The Book is a Mirror of Folk ways Rich and revealing ill mining the lives of Welsh working people with pro found Art. Everything Here is Felt deeply known and understood deeply dramas of work and men and tools dramas at the pit head when death controls the levers the Drums the wire ropes and cages go crashing against the pit s Brick and the puff puff of the winding engine is like the a heart like the panting of some huge animal in distress. The setting is the densely crowded District about the Cen where the Plymouth pits alone employed several thousands of men women and children and the people Are More closely packed in their rough hovels than the dead were in the Chapel graveyard. And the living were menaced with cholera so company doctors swore under their breath when visiting cases in company houses. How could a company doctor open his Mouth about housing conditions he had his own living to get. The com Pany owned everything schools hovels doctors clergymen canals Banks and souls. It responsible for the irregular and inadequate water Supply for the workers. The one tap in the Row Only two hours running out of Twenty four in the late summer and the last hour of running time it Only a thin trickle. So cholera took some of the children and explosions or the pit took others. But the older sons of phys Davies were driven from Home by their father s Wrath. Rhys Davies a Stern believer in the authority of the old fashioned Home Here a believer in the old fashioned morality that made the father a Complete dictator. Aye he could Deal with his sons he knew what a father for and the buckle end of a leather Belt. A Man had to be master in his own House. So Owen driven away for courting an English girl who could t speak a word of Welsh Llewelyn for courting Norah de Laney who Irish and Sam for marrying Mike Murphy s daughter. True Elias got a growl of consent when he married but that Fer picking a Welsh girl. Rhys against All truck or Trade with foreigners. Even in the pit he would not say Good morning or How do to the English trash he expressed his contempt with silence and tobacco juice. Aye Rhys a Man who knew his own mind. He would make up his son s minds for them to and take their wages until they were Twenty one and pick out then wives for them that what a father for. A Man had to be master in his own House.1 and Rhys had four children not driven from Home yet the two girls twins of seventeen who had worked in the Brickyard since they were ten will eleven work ing in the pit three years now and Joe the baby eight years old whom his Mother had a mind to give a bit of schooling so he would net have to go to the pit. But his father against it. Putting Joe to work would mean that he Rhys would have another half Crown to spend on drink. Small and Skinny Joe with legs and arms like knitting Needles but he had to go to work in the pit for All that he had to watch the mine door half a mile underground sitting All alone in the wet and sludgy dark with the rats and the dripping and the cold Clammy rocks for his father could t waste Money on candles for such a Small boy. The men meaning urchins like Joe and will were off at the pit like their fathers for fifteen hours from half past four in the morning until half past seven at night but Ann their Mother had to be up an hour before them every Day and an hour after they went o bed mending and cleaning try ing to find food for meals when Rhys did not bring Home his wages. Ann worn out at forty with no Teeth left in her head and no breath left in her body thirty years of being married to Rhys had made an old woman of her. But she turned helpless As a baby and quite simple the Day Rhys took the buckle end of his Belt thrash he girls for singing in a contest and winning the grand prize of. A Marble clock. Their father fixed he clock smashed it to he did. And then turned on the girls to 3eat them. A Man had to to master in his own House. Now Rhys a proper Chapel oing Man in spite of the drinking 3e sent his children there three times on sunday and went once a self. He had the Stern Puritan spirit of the old and he knew that singing outside of the Chapel sinful and he would t have his gels doing it. Now his gels earned their own Liy no working ten and a half hours a Day for three shillings and six a week and their father entitled of their wages he entitled to Ake the buckle end of his Belt to hem to Stop their singing. A Man. Lad to be master in his own House. But Ann their Mother took the read knife to him she suddenly had enough Home life she could t stand any More and so she had a stroke and went quite simple in the head the Book tells How Megan took Ier Mother s place at Home and Moriah became famous for her singing out in the world and How lard limes came and compulsory schooling for working people s children so that a Man like Rhys could t get the extra half Crown needed for drink by putting an eight year old Urchin to work underground. A menace to the of the Home that s what to and the Book show s that if Chapel going morality harsh and blighting the sunday schools provided All the learning that workers children had in those Jmes. And it a group of Young nonconformist ministers fir e brands All of them who fought to save the workers represented by their own people in parliament in Stead of by the Iron masters and Coal owners who had enslaved them with hideously Long hours and brutish living conditions. Bid Den to the feast is a compelling novel it is a remarkable social books at Eaton s the voyages of Jacques Cartier retold by Esther Averill. Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. Sailor on horseback the biography of Jack London by Irving Stone. The life Story of an author whose life More fantastic than any of his novels trending into Maine by Kenneth Roberts. Illustrated Fay n. C. Wyeth author of Northwest passage or. Bradley remembers by Francis Brett Young. A Story writ twi by a doctor who re members his youth before the War and the mature observations since then. A Story you will Long remember the Case of the shoplifter s shoe by Erie Stanley Gardner. A Perry Mason Story. Raphael s almanac prophetic messenger and weather guide 1939. Book Section. Main floor South Bible Belt Parson believes in Hel the Christ. By a. Wende Ross. Preface by the author. 22 up. New York Fleming h. Revell or. Ross s theology is Funda mentalist and wrathful. H sees sin everywhere. Card playing is sin dancing is kinds May Lead to Money is the beast of the apocalypse. We Are enjoined not to give thought to material things but to let the lord worry about our Supply of food and clothing a convenient religion this for fathers of ten o so who Don t feel like. Or. Ross says preachers today with few exceptions Are Coward and from this pleasant libel he passes on to observe tha there Are some pure Chaste honorable or. Ross who comes from Kansas believes in hell he looks Forward to an eternity of horrible torture for squirming unbelievers weeping and wailing arc gnashing their Teeth in a Furnace of everlasting fire. Altogether this is hardly a i Book to place in the hands of younger persons. The tone through out is unchristian offensive Anc curiously insulting to masses o. Decent people. It is hard to under stand How it got printed at All or Tiow it Ever got past the censors but apparently you can print any thing in the Bible Belt so Long As you include Large portions of the gospels. The Book we especially recommend you to read this week Eaton c9, style saves novel seek no farther. By con stance Robertson. Foreword by the author. 351 up. Toronto Oxford University press. Mrs. Robertson s portrait of the Temple commune at Jericho Centre new York is really a composite picture of several religious communities that nourished in America during the Ater half of the nineteenth Cen Tury. She delves into the amazing records of these weird sects taking details of dress and Domestic management from one strands of erratic belief from another idiosyncrasies manners incidents and personalities from the rest the re sult is a strange blend of hokum and fanatical Flummer. The Temple commune is men aced with threats of bankruptcy with a diphtheria epidemic and the sinister presence of James Prince charlatan spell Binder and hypnotist with a taste for High souled seduction who sees himself As Messiah to the group. With a Trail of scandals behind him and a disillusioned wife at his Side Prince is not constrained from choosing the girl Dinah to be the. Mother of his divine infant. There is a Strug Gle of wills Between Prince and Young Isaiah Stalwart son of the Leader of the commune who is m love with himself mrs. Robertson writes forcefully enough keep you Reading through tee Jungles of Flummer. Her. Style is i individual As Well As competent and i Clear a very striking commentary upon current political philosophies by Dorothy Thompson. The title is political guide Toronto Thomas do not neglect its Content for there is nothing quite like its serious important imperatively penetrating analysis of the dogmas of fascism totalitarianism communism socialism. Here Are sentences that almost literally sear across the mind Here Are glimpses of philosophical vistas that provoke a spell Here is the tremendous Impact of combined history and politics impelled by Good Hon est horse sense. This Little Book is so momentous that one would be willing to stake a reputation on it mystery thrillers Salute Blue mask by an Thony Morton. .303 pp., Toronto Lippincott another of now quite noted Baron stories with the american title and equally As the eth ree that have gone before it or. Morton is not Stock lie s his com plications thrill of the Baron and Lorna become involved in a dra Matic jewel robbery conspiracy when they go to the Rescue of a Young Man who is obviously being framed. The Baron actually gets caught by his opponents and photo graphed which provides a sub plot pictures and negatives must be regained and destroyed under the Baron attempts to Rob a jewel stronghold is double crossed and Only succeeds in escaping when fortuitously aided by a splendid blonde of course tries to make love to him. She this there is the mild suggestion that the cat will turn up again. One certainly Hopes she does Salute in deed death beneath Jerusalem. By Roger Bax. 301 up. Toronto Thomas. Nelson. The auctions in Palestine Are Here exploited in an enviously skilful manner. Or. Bax obviously knows his local and he uses it to appreciatively exciting advantage. Philip Garve news paper correspondent of Charm arid ability stumbles upon an Arab revolt plot he undertakes to frus trate it single Anderly when the authorities Are sceptical and he gets himself into a number of pretty wild adventures and fights in the famous Solomon Tunnel beneath the c to there spirited female in the Story daughter of a famous author whom Garve of course rescues spectacularly upon occasion. This is ripping adventure stuff easy to read and enjoy. The Footstool of the Moon. By j. Allen Renne. 254pp. London Hurst Blackett for the first time the Reader of adventure mysteries meets the modern mus those five highly Amus ing and competent gentlemen who saw action in the great War and who after being scattered by Fate to the ends of the Earth after the armistice come together in Lon Don. All of them but one. And he s got mixed up in Africa with a group of murderous gangsters deserters from Mussolini s Abys sinian forces who Are looking for a Fortune in gems in a Haggard sort of country. The remaining four musketeers go to Africa to the Root Stool of the Moon to avenge their former com Rade s death. Or Renne of strange uncanny monsters and the most exciting duels with machine guns that you can imagine. There is the that further adventures of these modern musketeers will be along soon. Let us Hope so trigger Delvan rides by Claude Rister. 252 up. London Ward lock. A rip snorting wild West thriller Here that is As Good As any of its kind. Cunning duplicity leads trigger Delvan to be come Cardman for Georgia Beck because Elvaa is under the impression that Georgia is. Responsible for his brother s death. Remarkable gunplay mob scenes and violence of several results As Georgia and.-. , Saloon and gambling Den owners fight for Mastery of. Theca Ftp in and Delvan finally disc yers the real Crook and murderer thrills for the is Cook Book flood a Good or bad the working girl mus eat. By Hazel Yonng. 208 up Toronto Mcclelland and Stewart it s fun to Cook. By Mary Maltby. Illustrated by rut King. 399 Toronto the Job a Winston company. More Cook Book s Are Bein published than May or May not be a goo sign in any Case most of them Are unusually competent and quit Well written. That part at Leas is a Good sign. Miss Young writes especially of the girl who works and some housekeeping. The menus a selected to provide variety in preparation As Well. As. In Content. The cookery is not elaborate but i does t entirely depend on the Fry ing pan and can opener. On each pair of facing pages there As a menu Vork plan and recipes. The menus contain simple food hat Are easily prepared and appetizing. The work for each meal i arranged in Steps. A very helpful ast step in every work plan is for the this includes suggestions for ordering and checking supplies and making dishes for the next Day that can stored All the recipes and work plan Are filled with Handy suggestion o Aid in the preparation and de ails of serving Are Given with every dish. The pages Are Fastener together with rings so that the vill lie Flat whenever the Book i opened. Miss Young s Book with simply and quickly prepared meals should indeed prove an invaluable asset not Only to the working girl it also to the Busy housewife Anc Hose living in Small quarters. Lucy m. Maltby is a noted Bora economist. She has taught Hom economics to every age group from events Grade to senior College and spends much of her time lecturing experimenting and writing. If. Run to Cook is based on the Story of Eleanor Ann and Elsie i Ane teen aged twins who find thai learning o Cook is an exciting game. At the very beginning they learn he importance of meal planning and work planning. They also learn be importance of careful measure no and adopt the slogan Don All the menus in he Book Are based on sound die Etic principles. Ther twins delve nto Nienus for , from simple meat to formal East Bridge lunches picnics invalid Oakery and cooking for a Large roup. The first half of the Book is in tory form leading Cooks rom one Experiment to another. He latter part of the Book is Given ver to recipes all1 recipes ave been tested by the author and Are presented in their simplest and most understandable form. The Book has been set in Large Lear Type pictures Jand photo graphs Are profusely through the Book these show Able arrangements How to Meas re food properly How to makeup familiar recipes products Bechai presentation would makes Ainy teen Agell navels finished interesting s Book gift for Erest the tides of Mont St. Michel. By Roger Verdel. Trans ated by w. B. Wells. 305 up. Tor nto Macmillan in Canada. The mall scale of its struggle simplicity of its mechanics set this usual novel far apart from which Roger Verc eps ook just prior to this. There is thing like the grand scale of the Alkan wars Here. But there is ust As vivid attractions in this Nar Active Woven around the fabulous r marvellous Island monastery of t. Michel. Into the vague grand or of that austere Monument to be sheer Power of Tranquility and Ecay comes a cultured Young Frenchman ruined by the Depres on and the vagaries of his Vacil rating heart to take a position of guide. After an Early resentment f his duties and an open dislike or his uniform and monotonous Atter of information Vercel s hero weeks repose in the same Environ ment where others have found it it finds at first turmoil and tribe. His wife Beautiful and Cal Ousby calculating fears the Over lowering influence upon him of the Cathedral and its implications and exists it with a wretched selfish Ess that adds to his woe. This emotional and physical struggle is reported in extraordinarily smooth language and quickly engrossed he Reader. The troubled House. By Osamond Jacob. 371 up. Toronto Ford University press. Miss Acob writes of family trouble and trouble in Ireland. She writes f Dublin in the harrowing then is with motor lorries roaring through the streets Young ebels clambering Over the roofs be cats. She writes of a troubled ouse with an irate father and Xee sons in it no Only two on for Liam has been kicked it for his activities in the re pub can army. Theo becomes in olved too Roddy is a pacifist the ther is against the rebellion he is against Liam. As a respite from atrocities of the Black and ans we Are permitted to be Home life of Liam and the familiar. Depressing spectacle of a ther s Sharp and instinctive hostility for his eldest son. It is not pretty Story. It is rather Savage and there Are dark tides of Irish Unity in it but it is told with clarity and smoothness by the Mother of the three boys perhaps this smooth style is faint incongruous in. A tale of tragedy id bitterness and hideous death. Koenigsmark. By a. E. W. Laxon. 413 up Toronto Musson Oak co. Or. Mason goes to his rival Europe for material for his the novel. And he remark ble Job with the passions the Iri Xigues and the politics of and the duchy Celie at the end of the seventeenth Century the novel however is More than a tremendously readable historical piece it is As Well a Fine portrait of Philip of the great swedish House of Koenigsmark. At u Philip is a Page at the the new Chancellor Bernstorff Dis covers that he is secretly meeting the Young Princess in1 the Roya his boy and frightens him almost out of i wits. And for Long years the memory of that dreadful nigh cannot effaced from Philip s memory. When moreover i meets the Princess again now mar ried to her Soltish Cousin am braving the court ladies As bes she can he makes love to her a first Only to satisfy his self esteem. Afterwards he Falls really in love with her and when Al fear has left him forgets to be cautious. Hence those unwise love letters which were found ant Sophia Dorothea s divorce Anc Philip s horrible death. All this of course is known history. By or. Mason s skill has imbued i with such Energy such immediacy that the Reader forgets he knows the ending of the fateful love. This is employing historical novel tech Nique and making it a Fine Art. The past becomes momentarily the a present Book Potpourri we married an English Man. By Ruth and Helen Hoff Man. Foreword by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Up. Toronto. Mcclel land and Stewart. The hoffmans Are twins and with their two cats travelled to Mesopotamia so Ruth might marry an englishman named Douglas. Eventually she does and seems quite Happy about it but the marriage not to be without its delays red tapis and otherwise. The twins who originally Caine from Minnesota write about the heat which at tires touched 180 degrees about the. Houses which Are built of mud and Are Likely to Wash away in the autumn Rains about the natives who Are dirty jut interesting and most of All about their two cats which they took along but did t bring Back. And they write wit with malice puckish Ness and with extraordinary relish. All of which makes a. Good Story the terror in the fog. By Norman Berrow. 316 up. London Ward lock. In which the famous Hock of Gibraltar and the Spanish civil War provide a background or a spectacular adventure thriller hat will hold the fan enthralled. 3o not be bothered by the rambling 50 pages that open the tale forgive hem because when or. Berrow finally gets when Michael Airlie. Accidentally knocks the Beautiful Gal Down in the fog and tumbles inter an old House trying o revive her and discovers three Panish dons Hung up by the neck hings begin to happen fast and furiously. The Gal disappears the corpses cause no end of mystery and before it cleared up there Are a couple of. Hundred pages of action horror love what More Art at the w. S. A. In its new quarters in the of Law courts building on Kenned Street tie Winnipeg school of a has established itself and is begin Ning to feel at Home. _ the work entailed by moving prodigious and the matter moving in while workmen were still engaged giving the finishing touches to the classrooms made it just a Little by More difficult to reach our object Ive. Under taking things philosophically is the Only Wayand that the course in bringing things t rights. And now everything moves quickly. Following a splendid enrolment the timetable is being observed and class periods carried out in a Way very Gratifying to All concerned. There is plenty of enthusiasm an eager Riess so very delightful in youth in this Case a venture in the unknown one would think of the As a sort of Salvage station. Ruskin put it admirably there is no wealth but life life with All ils Powers of love and and by the of the a the old Law courts has very suddenly been transformed. It has bucked up and no longer bears the sad aspect of having seen better Days there has been a recovery As one has frequently discovered in per sons whose recovery of self Resperi came when it dawned upon them that they could still be of service and with that feeling inspiring them came a glow of satisfaction. So the e Ike has. Happened or is happening ice this has happened to the old building in. Spite of its grim he Felon in the Dock and so much of dealing sort. The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches Hsong that jury men May and . It not lord Brougham who said a lawyer a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps t to himself and so with the and vent of the a. A great change has come. The spirit which imbues and inspires Art is so very different rom the hard uncompromising exactitude of Law it is rather a con Stabe. be Ruskin said of Turner he went to the Cataract for its Iris conflagration of the sea its Intel asset azure of the sky to purest Constable a True Pioneer in us passion for the Light in which in anticipates some of tie mos notable of magicians of painting. His soul had awakened mystery Andry glory of the Earth As it laughs in the Sunshine sparkles in the weeps in he rain. Critics said that in his am Tings there no handling of Lis subjects and he rejoined that he saw no handling in nature. He would sacrifice everything for Light and he rejoiced that he had pre served god almighty s Daylight which is enjoyed by All m this single minded Devotion made Lim a fit Leader in paint no which penetrated beneath the external radiance which he so Learly discerned on the Banks of he Stour and which Kindred souls n France have discerned on the Sanks of and the Loire the landscape Painter must wait he Fields with a Humble mind. No arrogant Man Ever permitted see nature in All her -j.m.b. Sketch club notes tuesday sept. 20, the Date Nick Eixe Diuk son of mrs. M. Elle Diuk Street who is held As of War by Spanish i members settled Down to work Jiu excellent Model provides Young lady vrho a a Gay red and White kerchief Tutt Ler hair with becoming work on the whole Ciao Fth Good a promising Start a successful season. Next week s Model will fc4young Man who will pose sketching. Members Are reminded tacit fees must be paid on or oct 4. ,1 note. Fort Garry Lodge no. 28, a.o.0.f, held first drive . Hall a Mcintyre Butk. Was a Good crowd evening most tag Rize winners were miss i. A. W. Jerome and mis w. N. A. Barry be att Egan jr., Allison. The not whist Driver will be held mesday oct. 19. The executive ancient order of United presided Over by p. Grand master Workman will meet in t 10.30, o c out of town Lonor judge jc., Evans ones of saskatoon.7 Ckuj Are. George Clars Secretary Strong arid a Barf Mcdonald. S spirit of Young j of the Winnipeg sketch club s first indoor meeting of the 1938-9 season. Canada the enrolment this is again most satisfactory. Many of the old students Are Back and a very Satis factory group of first year students is always to the Good. Hon one thinks of it it is a great undertaking this Effort to help the Oung to find find heir True place in the world giving s far As possible direction to their Ives so that they make direction to a Aoa Limore or less definite. 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